Tuesday, July 21, 2015

James Tate obituary - Iconoclastic and original American poet who won the Pulitzer prize


James Tate at his home in Pelham, Massachusetts, in 2011.
James Tate at his home in Pelham, Massachusetts, in 2011. Photograph: Christian Science Monitor/Getty

James Tate, who has died aged 71, was one of the most original and inventive American poets of his era, whose sense of humour and love of the tall story calls to mind an earlier Missouri-born master of the fable, Mark Twain.
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